Professional Etiquettes

Professional Etiquettes

Introduction

Professional etiquette is the determining factor between a rising and declining career path. As a Professional it is expected that one should understand the culture of its workplace .In the workplace it is very essential that one should follow certain essential etiquettes, which are like respecting other individuals and being courteous during business interactions. If these are followed they tend to have a long lasting impact on your career and on the business which you are into. Thus the professional etiquettes can be the basic factor in placing you either in the good or the bad books of the colleagues, boss or respective clients.

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Professional Etiquette Guide

Etiquette is the innate reflection of one's character and attitude and professional etiquette is a person showing understanding of the culture of workplace, respecting others and showing the best of manners to all. The Professional etiquette in this site is well defined firstly it talk of Initiating Contact with others (Coleman 2007) .If a person is introduced by some other person than it increases person credibility amongst the group, thus we should always try to be introduced by others. Other thing in initiating contact is to try to talk in-person conversation and avoid emails. The most effective manner of initiating contacts is by In-personal conversation, and then comes the phone and least is the email. In initiating contact the last thing is to keep a give and take relationship not a one way relationship. For if we keep a give and take relationship it will not result in burden on person .It will keep both the parties happy.

Emailing and voice mails are effective methods of initiating contacts. One should be very careful when writing emails. For the writing reflects the personality of the person. Proofreading should be done before sending the emails, so as to avoid any errors in it (Coleman 2007). The other thing while doing emailing is that one should not give too much importance to formatting because most of the professionals use blackberry for reading emails.

When a person is increasing its network there are few things to remember. Always try to introduce others with good thoughts; this leaves a good impression on others. First shake hand with the most senior of the group than with others, the shaking of hands should be firm. When listening or talking with someone we should try to keep an eye contact with him, wandering our eyes somewhere else will result in miss-communication (Coleman 2007). Lastly when leaving the conversation try to end it up on good note, like saying it was pleasure meeting with you.

The most important things in a Professional live is Meetings .These are mostly represented by their top notch of the organization .When attending meeting one should be formally dressed. During the meeting, try to close or silent things which may be a cause of distraction for e.g. mobile phones and computers. Prepare the part which a person has to present beforehand and try to avoid extempore ...